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Leap 15.3 yast software repositories priority order
by Istvan Gabor 26 Oct '21

26 Oct '21

Hello: This is a new openSUSE Leap 15.3 installation. The order the repos are listed in yast software repositories window is strange (incorrect). All repos with priority number 99 are separeted in a different group from any other repos which have different priority number. For example if I set ascending order I get something like this (I write only the numbers): 60 120 150 180 99 (Default) 99 (Default) 99 (Default) 99 (Default) That is, everything not 99 is listed before 99 independently from its value. How could I fix this, it's really annoying. Thanks, Istvan

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Tiny Letters
by Mark Misulich 25 Oct '21

25 Oct '21

Hi, I have been configuring my Asus laptop after I installed opensuse. I found by research that there has been an issue in the past with the Intel video driver that my laptop uses in linux. But that driver was placed in the 5.8 kernel and the problem went away. Those fixes have now been added into the updated 5.3 kernels, which are used in Leap 15.3. The driver is working, but it doesn't seem to be configured correctly from the start, and anything displayed in any window was displayed too small. So the issue to me seemed to be that the driver configuration was incorrect, at least for my laptop display. I haven't found any information about how to generally configure the driver overall (Intel TigerLake-LP Iris Xe Graphics [TGL GT2]). What I have done is to increase font and icon size, and window zoom to get a readable screen in each browser. Yet what I haven't found is how to increase the size of the font in the URL windows in a browser. They appear very tiny, as the rest of a browser screen used to present before I adjusted the settings. The adjustments I have made in the browser settings haven't affected the url window in the browser. Would anyone have ideas as to how to increase font size in that specific location? Thanks Mark

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[oS-en] Unending sync
by Carlos E. R. 25 Oct '21

25 Oct '21

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, This afternoon I told this desktop machine to hibernate. My script to hibernate is this: date --rfc-3339=seconds echo Syncing sync date --rfc-3339=seconds echo "synced. Now screensaver" xscreensaver-command -lock sleep 3 #sudo chvt 10 #sleep 1 sudo /usr/local/sbin/beep sleep 1 #systemctl hibernate sudo /usr/bin/systemctl hibernate sleep 3 sudo /usr/local/sbin/beep #date --rfc-3339=seconds echo Well, at 19 hours it was still going at it: Telcontar:~ # hibernate 2021-10-23 15:23:17+02:00 Syncing It had been attempting to sync the filesystem for 4 hours, unsuccessfully. I do a separate sync previous to hibernating, because otherwise the hibernate stalls for long time not giving a hint of what is going on. What is going on? Well, the problem seems to be syncing the metadata of partition sdc9 (reiserfs, rotating rust), which holds /var/spool/news/. It can be a few millions of small files. Not really a news server, just the leafnode proxy. I know it takes very long after it runs /etc/cron.daily/leafnode, which calls "/usr/sbin/texpire": logger -p cron.warning -t texpire "CER: running leafnode's texpire without ionice" test -x /usr/sbin/texpire && su - news -c "/usr/sbin/texpire" logger -p cron.warning -t texpire "CER: finished texpire" sync -f /var/spool/news/ logger -p cron.warning -t texpire "CER: and synced -f" That sync can take half an hour normally, but that was not the time it runs: <9.4> 2021-10-22T23:45:01.361524+02:00 Telcontar texpire - - - CER: running leafnode's texpire without ionice ... <9.4> 2021-10-23T00:35:19.929058+02:00 Telcontar texpire - - - CER: finished texpire <9.4> 2021-10-23T00:37:09.833697+02:00 Telcontar texpire - - - CER: and synced -f So it should have not interfered. So what? Another possibility is that there is a cronjob that every 4 minutes tries to fetch news. So what I have done is disabling that job, and after a while, sync finished. So now my hibernate script will also need to stop news fetching. But how is it possible that sync is unable to cope and sync in time the metadata of a hundred new tiny files at most? Is it some new problem with reiserfs? - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 15.2 x86_64 at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHoEARECADoWIQQZEb51mJKK1KpcU/W1MxgcbY1H1QUCYXRaDBwccm9iaW4ubGlz dGFzQHRlbGVmb25pY2EubmV0AAoJELUzGBxtjUfViwEAoJFRSLa1AEeBDYv3uGZU gqh6eRzEAJ95ciPt1S737jGuo14SB+HPmsTYzA== =ls1+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Live Net 15.3 Upgrade Pointers
by Lew Wolfgang 25 Oct '21

25 Oct '21

Hi Folks, I've got to perform a live upgrade from Leap 15.2 to 15.3 on a system for which I don't have physical access. I'm thinking that a live zypper upgrade via remote ssh will work using the instructions for a console upgrade, listed here: https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:System_upgrade Does anyone have experience doing this? Any pointers would be appreciated before I break something! Regards, Lew

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gerbera for Leap 15.3
by mh＠mike.franken.de 24 Oct '21

24 Oct '21

Hi *, is there a package for gerbera on Leap 15.3? The opensuse software page only lists versions for Leap 15.2 and for Tumbleweed. Thx and bye. Michael.

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[oS-en] Libre office video problem
by Carlos E. R. 22 Oct '21

22 Oct '21

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, See attachment. The cursor is in the middle of the last "a", instead of at the end of the "a" where the next letter would go. This makes editing very diffficult. I'm not providing any more info wating for ideas of what you might need, I have no idea what would be needed. Leap 15.2, default LO, AMD CPU and Video, no proprietary drivers. - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 15.2 x86_64 at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHoEARECADoWIQQZEb51mJKK1KpcU/W1MxgcbY1H1QUCYXMl+xwccm9iaW4ubGlz dGFzQHRlbGVmb25pY2EubmV0AAoJELUzGBxtjUfVV/gAoJO21BoxKRcMryJcE184 50SduAaBAJ4udK/BHXd/4gd7mOqv+Pg1xQGT0Q== =EbId -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: softmaker-freeoffice-2018-982.x86_64.rpm
by Carlos E. R. 22 Oct '21

22 Oct '21

On 21/10/2021 10.56, Roger Oberholtzer wrote: > On Thu, Oct 21, 2021 at 10:18 AM Carlos E. R. <> wrote: >> And the package is indeed orphaned: YaST displays it in red. > > Odd. I do not see this for any packages that I have installed from a > local RPM. And I have a number of these. I am looking now at one > specific one that I obtain from a hardware vendor. No repository. In > fact, one of them started life as a DEB file that I convert to an RPM > for local install. I cannot see anything in yast that looks different > for this package compared to one from a repo. Except in the Technical > Data tab, the Packager is not set, and the Build Host is listed as the > computer on which I made the RPM. Nothing in red anywhere. > > What does YasT showing a package in red really mean? See attached :-) (the line below the selector, which says "imap") Also, if in that window you select the "repositories" tab, then as secondary filter "unmantained packages", it should list this orphan. > BTW, this is on a current Tumbleweed. Me, Leap, but it has always been this way, I doubt TW would be different. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.2 x86_64 at Telcontar)

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Chromium crashing
by James Knott 21 Oct '21

21 Oct '21

There was a Chromium update recently and since then it has been crashing frequently. I'll leave the browser open and when I come back later it has crashed. Has anyone else noticed this? tnx jk

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mail archive - is this normal?
by Istvan Gabor 21 Oct '21

21 Oct '21

Hello: I am trying to find a message in the archive, which is a hard task. The search function doesn't work, it gives: Server error An error occurred while processing your request. Therefore I have to search monthly, and set the maximum results/page to 200 every time when I change month, because it is always reset to 10. (It is amazing what a crap this mail archive frontend is.) Going through the months I found this: openSUSE Users July 2021 users(a)lists.opensuse.org https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/users@lists.opensuse.org/2021/2/ Web Site Standards by Bryan Tyson which links to this message: Bryan Tyson 3 Jul 2002 19:50 https://gmail.hu/rmail/?_task=mail&_id=202060853761716bd7e72bd&_action=comp… How this message from July 2002 gets to the archive of February 2021? Istvan

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FreeNAS
by Roger Oberholtzer 21 Oct '21

21 Oct '21

Any users of FreeNAS? If so, happy users? Good solution? -- Roger Oberholtzer

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